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A Study in Practical Psychology 

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By the Author of Psychocraft 

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There's a 'Wireless' 'twixt Destiny and man; Ellu is your interpreter. 



Published by C. H. Emerson, 1307 Congress St. , 
Portland, Maine 



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Copyright 1912 

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SHIS little book is intended to meet the popular demand 
for a cheaper edition of the book "Psychocraft,"'^' — a 
demand which illustrates in a most striking way the far 
reaching influence of a great journal. On January 14, 1912, 
the A^czv York World gave a full page illustrated review 
of the above mentioned book. The tribute to the merits 
of the book in that review, was voluntary. It was not a 
paid advertisement. Indeed not a word of public adver- 
tising of the book was ever printed in any publication, 
because the first edition was a very limited one in numbers. 
Yet, by virtue of that one review orders came from near 
and far. The book is published in Maine, and orders came 
from California, from Oregon, from Utah and Colorado, 
from Texas — in short from nearly every State in the union 
and then from Cuba and from far away Australia. 

^'Scc how far that little candle throzcs his beams!' 
so shines the good icord of the mighty ''World:' 

As it is very desirable that as large a number of people 
as possible should get better acquainted with themselves, 
more people are thus enabled to test this remarkable device. 
by making use of their own obscure but responsive psychic 
powers, personified in Ellu. (Pronounced (EL-LOO). 

From the Neiu York W^orld. 

"The Oracle of Ellu is a wonder. . . . Here are twelve 
test questions put to the oracle. The questiojis and answers, given 
in this column, are the result of actual tests made with the 'Oracle 
of Elln," by various members of the staff of this newspaper." 

* • •Psychocraft," octavo, cloth, 400 pages, illustrated, printed 
in three colors; Chas. H. Emerson, author and publisher, 1307 
Congress St., Portland, Maine. $2.00 net: $2.35 postpaid. 



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iltttroliurttott. 

3F A THING works — produces the results claimed for it, 
that is all a good many people ever care to know about 
it. To such it would be enough to say briefly, here is un- 
qualifiedly the best instrumental oracle the world has ever 
seen, and there is nothing in the world like it. It makes good. 
But for those who care to look below the surface of things, 
and study the philosophy or why of it, but who cannot 
afford the larger book "Psychocraft," it is here stated briefly 
that the theory of this oracle rests upon two of the fun- 
damental assumptions of psycho-therapeutical science : 

1. That a faculty exists in every human life called 
the UNCONSCIOUS self, for want of a better name, which 
has the potentiality of absolute dominion over all the 
organic mechanisms of life, applicable to a special purpose, 
at any instant, asleep or awake, whenever it can be induced, 
by circumstance or conscious effort, to direct organic 
activity to an end. 

2. That this other self must possess an intelligence, 
vastly superior to, and independent of, the slow reasoning 
faculty of mind, in order to use the organic mechanisms of 
life to a purpose, as it actually does, in curative processes, 
and in those unaccountable sudden acts on impulse; which 
are beyond reason, where life is "miraculously" saved from 
impending disaster. It must also possess the power of 
prevision in order to account for such acts on impulse and 
for the other facts resulting from that use, which it un- 
doubtedly does direct; namely, instinct, intuition, premo- 
nition, clairvoyance or "seership," prophetic dreams, etc. 

Legitimate Inference. 

One legitimate inference from these basic assumptions 
of science, is that inasmuch as the organic mechanisms of 



life are composed of infinetismal cells^ practically countless 
in number, estimated by a German biologist to amount to 
over six hundred millions in the brain alone; and that 
inasmuch as these are divided into groups of cells, each 
group presided over by a ''motor centre,'' and every single 
cell of every group provided with minute fibres, branching 
in "tree-like" ramifications to other cells and groups, thus 
creating a most prodigious and bev^ildering maze of com- 
plexities of connections, — that in order to keep this vast 
machinery of memory and action in running order, so that 
its owner may remain sane, instead of the cells being like 
sweet bells jangled out of tune, this other self must per- 
force be such a natural mathematician as conscious mind 
or reason alone can never hope to be — a veritable lord of 
numbers ; by whom, the partially known and puzzling laws 
of CHANCE^ for instance, could be instantly perceived and 
acted upon — by intuition, as it were. 

Practical Application. 

Now in reference to the practical application of these 
principles to a working oracle, it may be said further, that 
it is perfectly conceivable that if all the movements of the 
balls were in plain sight, practice and skill could soon gain 
such mastery over those movements, as to bring about any 
one of the possible twenty-six color combinations that might 
be desired should appear in the open eye space of the re- 
ceptacle. 

Furthermore it would be possible to memorize all the 
answers, with their index marks, so that knowing the ques- 
tion, conscious effort could bring about any desired answer 
by simply manipulating the balls. But that would violate 
the oracle principle, which must include prescience. 

So that is why the movements of the balls are purposely 
concealed within the cover of the book, which thus shuts 
off all possibility of conscious manipulation by the meddling 



mind, and leaves their movements free and strictly under 
the lazi's of chance. 

But, if it is even conceivable that the comparatively 
slow and fumbling v^ork of a strained conscious memory, 
and patient muscular skill, could in time laboriously Mrork 
out a seeming result, how much more probable that the un- 
conscious other self, with its X-Ray eyes, and absolutely 
perfect and inconceivably swift control of all the organic 
mechanisms of muscular movements, and with instant per- 
ception of all the laws of chance — How much more con- 
ceivable and probable that this same mysterious power in 
life, which at times plays independently upon that marvelous 
instrument, the brain, to cause those occasional flashes of 
genius that enlighten and delight the world — How much 
easier to such a power to bring about the true answer to 
the question put by simply creating that delicate muscular 
action which could influence the balls under the laws of 
gravitation and centrifugal and centripetal action. 

There is more to it than you think! 
The following few quotations from hosts of eminent 
authorities who have written similarly, will show that the 
above assumptions are not without respectable support. 

' 'A mind to which were given for a single instant all the 
forces of nature and the mental position of all its masses, if it 
were otherwise powerful enough to subject these problems to 
analysis, could grasp with a single formula, the motions of the 
largest masses, as well as of the smallest atoms ; nothing would be 
uncertain for it ; the future and the past would lie revealed be- 
fore its eyes.'' — Laplace. 

"In writing these words, Laplace, as we know had also in 
mind the atoms of the brain. . . . It is not too much to say 
that Laplace's ideal is substantially that of the great majority of 
modern scientists.'' — Dr. Ernst Mach (Professor of Inductive Sci- 
ence, University of Vienna, in Popular Science Lectures, p. 188). 

"All w^ho admit of the existence of Destiny will see nothing 
more than natural that she indicates the way at each turning of 
the road." — Dr. Arnaldo Cervesato. 

"It has always seemed to me incredible that we should not 
be able to know the future." — Maurice Maeterlinck. 

". . . There is something higher in man than mind and 
that something can control the mind." — Arnold Bennett. 



®l|? Wruth at % mi^n ^^If. 

The Tzi'o Intelligences. 

Xo one can coniinit a greater psychological blunder 
than did Noah zvhen he classified INSTINCT as an attribute 
of mind. For beyond all reasonable doubt there are tzvo 
separate and distinct INTELLIGENCES in every human 
life, and instinct belongs to the one ivhich is the mind's 
infinite superior. To call this superior intelligence ''sub- 
conscious mind," is a self-deceiving dodge of the intellect 
to satisfy its ovun omnivorous conceit that it is the ''whole 
thing.''' So "subliminal mind" is equally inapplicable ; since 
it is not mind in any sense. To think so is equivalent to 
standing upon a golden thread and ivondering zvhat holds 
it dozvn. Intellect in its highest reach is only an imitator 
of instinct; yet instinct is only one of the lesser attributes 
of this other Intelligence, upon zvhich the operation of the 
ORACLE OF THE OTHER SELF is founded. 



HEN, in the gnome haunted highlands of the Hudson, 

in the summer of 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake wrote 

the exquisite story of the "Culprit Fay," in response to a 

r friendly challenge that it would be quite impossible to write 

2\ a story of human interest without a human character in it, 

^^^ and endowed his etherial creations, and the spirits of earth, 

air and water, and the common insects of the fields, with 

powers of intelligible communication, his wildest and most 

fantastic flights of fancy fell far below the actualities of 

real life, — as the following news item of great scientific 

interest, which recently went the rounds of the press attests. 



The Butterflies' ''Wireless." 

According to the published account, a little lady butterfly- 
was being kept alive in a glass case, in a remote room, in 
the gloom of one of the big buildings of Harvard University 
for scientific study; it was far removed from the open 
sunlit space where other butterflies were disporting; yet, 
one day another, of the same species, was found beating 
himself against the window of the little captive's room. 
It was inferred that in some unknown way the little prisoner 
must actually have sent out a wireless message which could 
pierce glass and stone walls ; and that in some equally mys- 
terious w^ay, the other butterfly — a male — had not only 
received the message right, but knew exactly where to 
find her, if only he could break the prison walls. 

Probably most readers of the account, regarded it in a 
matter of fact sort of way, as merely an uncommon instance 
of the power of Instinct, — as if nothing however incompre- 
hensible were too great for the magic power of Instinct to 
perform. 

Not to moralize, but to draw perfectly practical con- 
clusions, it may be broadly stated that to follow an instinct 
is to win; or, idio truly acts upon impulse never goes wrong. 
But one must discrhiiinate between a mere idle tendency to 
let a vagrant passing fancy lead a too ready imagination off 
into visionary projects, and the true impulse that touches 
the hair trigger of instant action. The discrimination is 
easy, for your true impulse is not only never premeditated, 
but is never accompanied by any process of thought or re- 
flection whatever. 

I knew a man who had made this discrimination a mat- 
ter of zealous life practice. To such an extent did this 



man carry his convictions that to those who did not know 
his deeper motives he was only a poor ^'visionary," if not 
something worse. And truly it must be admitted that 
some of his unaccountable acts did appear at the time, of the 
craziest sort. Yet the results of such acts would often 
transcend the power of reason altogether; and did indeed 
turn out to be the only possible act that could have diverted 
impending disaster. The following graphic account of a 
real experience will illustrate this point : 

The Hiiindn ''Wireless.'' 

A man was standing upon the deck of a great ship, 
homeward bound. Not a trace of misgiving, or solicitude 
for the future marred the perfect serenity of his physical 
and mental attitude. He had been successful on a certain 
delicate mission abroad, and it only required that his 
associates at home should at once possess certain informa- 
tion, which he alone could impart to put him at peace with 
himself and the whole world and even that, thanks to the 
modern miracle of invention, had been made possible. 

From the mast head above him had just leaped the in- 
visible wave making sparks that had sped his "wireless'^ 
message to them; so it was that he stood in a great and 
complacent contentment, gazing out into the shadowy air 
of the starlit sea. He had just drawn a deep breath of 
satisfaction when a dim form, which seemed to come out 
of the sky itself, stood beside him holding out a message, 
for him. He seemed to recognize the dim form and the 
great importance of its presence, for instantly his whole 
attitude had changed; from a complacent and relaxed pas- 
sivity he suddenly became the very embodiment of an intense 



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and alert attention. With that same swift instinctive glance 
which every one first gives to the signature of a message 
received, he had perceived that this evidently unexpected 
message, which zvas self htminous — was signed zmth his 
ouni name! The wireless was short and unmistakably clear; 
it said simply ''There is no time to lose; yon must leap into 
the sea at once." 

For just one little wink of time he stood quivering in 
the throes of an intense pitch of excitement, the very apex 
and climax of which was a preternatural calmness. With 
a deep breath, he drew himself together, and without an 
instant's further hesitation, and as if under the influence 
of a mighty spell which his reason could not resist, he ran 
swuftly forward and with a powerful leap, flew over the 
rail and plunged downward into the sea. A great block 
of ice was floating near where he fell. He climbed upon 
this and waited developments. The great ship sped onward 
and left him behind. But he had not long to wait. The 
good ship was speeding on to a swift and terrific end. Al- 
most immediately a crash followed, and the ship with over 
a thousand souls on board passed out of human sight for- 
ever. But the man on the floating ice cake, who had read 
his wireless right, was picked up by another ship and was 
saved. 

It needs scarcely to be pointed out that the presence 
of the shadowy form at his side on the ship, that passed 
the message to his consciousness, was merely to personify 
the invisible source of his sudden and saving impulse to 
action. It was his Ellu. But this idea of the two intel- 
ligencies must not be confounded with the more common 
one of dual personalities, such as illustrated in the story 
of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and in Dr. ■Morton Prince's 



"Dissociated Personalities," for all such refer only to dif- 
ferent phases of the one intelligence covered by the term 
mind. 

Now the other of these two intelligences is something 
entirely different, and the incomparable superior of mind. 
Unfortunately this separate intelligence has never had a , 
distinctive name of its own — (at least not previous to my 
book ''Psychocraft," wdiere it is personified as ELLU.) For 
the want of a discriminating name it has been variously 
miscalled by philosophers and psychologists, "subliminal" and 
''subconscious" mind, which is particularly unfortunate, since 
such a name only begets more confusion by tying it to the 
one intelligence to which it does not at all belong, and still 
leaves the other unnamed, since such names can only refer 
to pathological phases of the one intelligence, mind. Who- 
ever has not made this necessary discrimination, has never 
had a definite thought of this other separate and superior 
intelligence that plays so large a part in human life ex- 
perience. 

But there is another source of confusion. It must not 
be inferred that if this other intelligence is not mind but 
its superior, then it must be that which is commonly called 
spirit; this too would be entirely wrong. This powerful 
other intelligence of the "other self" is conceived to be 
something absolutely distinct from both mind and spirit. 
For this reason ''The Independent Intelligence" would not 
be a bad name for it, except for its awkward length. But 
for the sake of illustrating the necessary distinction the 
two intelligences may be temporarily called the Dependent 
and the Independent This will serve a double purpose : it 
is nearer right, and it avoids the old confusions inseparable 
from the more common terms conscious and subconscious. 



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The Dependent of course naming the conscious reason- 
ing self, and the Independent, that of the unconscious ''Other 
self." The Dependent embracing mind (reason and intel- 
lect) which as matter of fact are dependent for their very 
existence upon the organic mechanisms through which all 
sense impressions must come, never by any possibility seeing 
things as they are, but only as one or more of the five senses 
interpret; consequently it is the mind which is especially 
liable to illusions and hallucinations. 

While, on the contrary the Independent, or unconscious 
other self, has the faculty of. instantly perceiving things ex- 
actly as they are, absolutely independent of the operation of 
the sense machinery. To continue a homely illustration, 
it is as if the dependent (mind), was a slow and blundering 
dunce compared with the independent other self which is a 
swift and brilliant genius. One acquires only by the infinite 
labor of logical means, slowly and painfully, and is always 
irresolute and doubtful of its own best and most painstaking 
results. The other is spontaneous and certain; knows all 
things by intuition, as it were, without effort and is never 
wrong. 

The real difficulty is to make the discrimination, seg- 
regating mind, and realize at the same time that these two 
totally dissimilar intelligences belong to the same life. But 
they undoubtedly do, and better yet, they communicate. 
Moreover, the genius is ever helping the dunce, indeed when- 
ever help is needed. Sometimes it may be by an inspiration 
to a particular effort; or perhaps by premonition, or by 
intuition; or perhaps by a prophetic dream, but more often 
it is by an impulse to sudden action in moments of great 
danger. The scene on the ship is not far fetched or fan- 
tastic in nature, but strictly in harmony with fact. 



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The Pezvabic Incident. A True Story. 

The astounding command of this Independent Intel- 
ligence, beyond the utmost powers of the normal self, over 
the motor muscular mechanisms of the body, in moments 
of great peril of disaster and death, is incredible even to 
those who have experienced it, as I can vouch. It can in- 
stantly seize control zuherever the occasion comes, of all 
the machinery of life conscious and unconscious, and in a 
flash draw upon those "vast intrinsic stores of lasting en- 
ergies" packed in countless millions of muscle cells, and 
perform prodigious feats of strength with superhuman 
swiftness, skill and directness, and to a foreseen purpose. 
There is no other conceivable conclusion that fits the facts 
so well, at least for me, as the following incident in a 
wide experience borrowed from "Psychocraft" proves. 

Some years ago, I was at work alone in the bottom of 
a deep shaft in the old Pewabic mine in Russell Gulch in 
Colorado. A little way up from the bottom of the shaft, 
about eight feet up, at least higher than I could reach, was 
a "drift" or open "level" which had been run in on the 
vein of ore. The ore was a solid sulphide, heavy as iron. 
At that time the shaft was being sunk on the ore. I had 
loaded the heavy steel "bucket," had examined the safety 
chain clutch and rung the signal to hoist, and was watch- 
ing the heavy mass as it started upward and faded si- 
lently into the darkness beyond the weak rays of my candle, 
when, all at once, without any apparent reason or perceivable 
cause, I was seized with a sudden and uncontrollable frenzy 
of desire to get out of that shaft. Mechanically, that is 
to say, without an instant's delay to think or reason why 
and how, but under that paroxysm of unreasoning panic 
to act, I sprang upward with a marvelous strength and 



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lightness and my lingers grasped the ragged edge of the 
broken rock and ore that formed the floor of the drift, and 
the next instant, by reason of an altogether abnormal and 
inexplicable display of muscular force, was standing up- 
right on that floor. My candle was put out in the operation, 
but as I stood there trembling like a leaf in the black dark- 
ness, a puff of rushing wind and a ^mall piece of flying rock 
struck me, and something with a crashing blow struck the 
bottom of the shaft, with terrific force, exactly where an 
instant before, I had been standing. I relighted my candle 
and peered into the hole. There lay the big bucket I had 
just sent up, its load covering the bottom of the shaft, the 
strong sides of the steel bucket bulged and split open and 
crumpled, showing that the great force of the blow would 
have pulverized me had I remained there an instant longer. 

Afterwards, after the wreck was cleared out, I had 
occasion to climb out of the shaft to the drift, under normal 
circumstances. Then for the first time I realized the amaz- 
ing nature and effectiveness of the power that had literally 
seiJed and thrown me bodily, in an instant, out of that 
death trap. For T found it a difficult and slow struggle 
clambering up the rough sides, with slips and failures and 
fresh starts before I succeeded in reaching the drift. 

And though I were to fill a volume with like experiences 
of hair breadth escapes, as T might, yet they would not be 
singular. Millions of my fellow beings have doubtless had 
experiences that put all mine in the shade. But even mine 
have made me marvel many times, that a life so obscure 
should be so precious to a power entirely beyond my com- 
prehension — until I have asked again and again, "What 
power can it be that takes such care of me?" And again, 
"What can be the adequate motive of such an unaccountable 
intelligence?" 



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But there are others, Knights of Morality, who, ad- 
mitting that people have a right to their own beliefs, at the 
same time vehemently declare that any actual course of 
conduct based on them, which is not sanctioned by their 
skilled experience and theory as beneficial to humanity, is 
immoral and illegal, and if you have the temerity to act on 
such beliefs, they will have the law on you. 

In proof of this, do not medico-legal societies invoke 
the aid of the law in their efforts to suppress what the med- 
ical mind regards as the "irregular," if not illegal use of 
the occult powers in the cure of disease? Yet the very latest 
and highest reach of modern medical science, has established 
in its foremost institutions throughout the civilized world, 
the new uses of hypnosia in the treatment of obscure maladies. 

Again, laws have been enacted to suppress the gross 
abuse of fortune telling as practiced by those who claim to 
possess an occult power of foreseeing or influencing future 
events for pay. The law is founded upon the general prin- 
ciple that such claims and practices commit frauds upon 
the ignorant and superstitious and therefore easily gullible 
people. Of course the law is right, because in ninety-nine 
cases out of every hundred, it is rank fraud that is prac- 
tised. And though the foremost scientists in the world 
recognize the existence of a clairvoyant faculty in human 
life as a scientific fact; and though the single exception of 
one in a hundred may be a case of genuine clairvoyance, 
the public, which cannot discriminate, must be protected 
against swindlers and charlatans. 

So it is not because there is no sitch thing as prescient 
intelligence in human life, hut only that the mode of its 
application is zcrong. 

It is this inability of ordinary human reason itself to 
perceive the future, or always to discriminate between hal- 



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lucination and reality, that has brought about the universal 
recognition of a power — lower than divinity — which reason 
cannot comprehend, and which it calls chance or Destiny. 
But more powerful minds have said that in reality there 
cannot be any such thing as chance, because natural laws 
must govern everything that happens. In the great and 
restless mental energies put forth to master these laws, genius 
managed to lift, scientifically, one corner at least, of the 
impenetrable veil of the future, by discovering the Law of 
Probabilities. 

This law is a part of the most powerful engine of 
knowledge ever invented by the restless genius of man. It 
is so complex and intricate and goes so far into the unknown 
and mysterious realm of numbers^ which only the higher 
mathematics can invade at all, that comparatively iew can 
grasp it. Indeed no one has ever yet grasped it all. Doubt- 
less to him who can perceive all of that law the future would 
lie revealed. But it takes a higher intelligence than conscious 
human reason has ever yet attained. 

' 'A mind to which were given for a single instant all the 
forces of nature and the mental position of all its masses, if it 
were otherwise powerful enough to subject these problems to 
analysis, could grasp with a single formula, the motions of the 
largest masses, as well as of the smallest atoms ; nothing would be 
uncertain for it ; the future and the past would lie revealed be- 
fore its eyes." — Laplace. 

"In writing these words, Laplace, as we know had also in 
mind the atoms of the brain. . . . It is not too much to say 
that Laplace's ideal is substantially that of the great majority of 
modern scientists." — Dr. Ernst Mach (Professor of Inductive Sci- 
ence, University of Vienna, in Popular Science Lectures, p. 188.) 

So when some perplexed one of poor humanity's endless 
throngs, sorely beset with doubts and fears, lets some chance 
governed event decide some question which is beyond his or 
her own reason or judgment to decide — , can there be any 



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taint of immorality about such an act? On the contrary, it 
even partakes of the nature of prayer, as any nice old lady 
can tell you, who, when in doubt, sticks a pin at random 
between the leaves of the Bible, to open at that point and be 
guided by what she there reads. 

The Higher Human Intelligence. 

Now, one of the most significant facts in the modern 
science of medicine is this : the tendency to identify the un- 
conscious or higher human intelligence in some way with that 
obscure human faculty which develops or engenders that 
which Sir Wm. Crookes named Psychic Force, and which is 
believed to exert an independent and superior control over 
the organic mechanisms of life. The very name of a new 
treatment, already well established in the foremost medical 
institutions in the world — psychanalysis, indicates this fact. 

The very foundation of that theory is the fundamental 
assumption of the existence of an independent intelligence 
in human life, which by proper means can he induced to use 
its superior power over the organic mechanisms of life, for 
a purpose beyond the reach of the will, or medicine of any 
kind. 

In the light of all this, it is perfectly conceivable that the 
old lady's fingers might have been unconsciously guided to 
insert the pin between those two particular leaves of the 
Bible, where her best help for that moment was, by that same 
independent intelligence which can play upon the organic 
mechanisms of life for curative purposes. If you combat one 
you must combat the other of these assumptions. 

Touching the general question of the ethics of the 
oracle, it may be said that there is probably not one mature 



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human being in ten thousand, who does not in some way at 
sometime, show his or her insistent faith in omens and in the 
oracle principle. 

Furthermore there has never been a time in the history 
of the world, when the human race has not actually had and 
used an oracle of some sort, from the powerful oracle of 
Yahveh (Aaron's breastplate) to the flipping of a coin 
for "heads or tails" — "odd or even." 

Moreover, the moral influence of the oracle, from Moses 
down, cannot be gainsaid. On this point the eminent au- 
thority Lewis Richard Farnell, M. A., Litt. D., says "As re- 
gards the development of religious morality in Greece, we 
must reckon seriously with the part played by the oracle. 
. . . The great colonial expansion of Greece, which has 
left so deep an imprint on the culture of Europe, was in 
part inspired and directed by the oracle. . . . On the 
whole we discover that the moral influence of Delphi (the 
oracle), was beneficial and on the side of righteousness." 

If, therefore, poor humanity must and will have an 
oracle of some sort, at all hazards, even to the patronizing 
of the bare-faced pretensions of downright fraud — ^paying 
dear for the empty privilege of letting empty buckets into 
empty wells and drawing nothing out, there surely should 
be a place and room for the most exquisitely perfect oracle 
the world has ever seen, in whose sure answers are inculcated 
the undying principles and precepts of that righteousness 
which is the wisdom of the ages. 

Such is the broad conception and purpose of the Oracle 

of EUu. 



©I|P linttJi^rs of tl|? Ansmn Oltjart. 

The jnerest child can understand the simple directions 
for the practical use of the chart by means of which the an- 
swers to questions are obtained. Still it may be to some a 
little surprising that although any one of any possible color 
combination of the crystals is free to happen to fall by this 
chart to any one of 676 different tabulated meanings, as wide 
apart as the poles, on different subjects, yet when the hap- 
hazard chance governed crystals are asked a definite ques- 
tion, they will not only never give a wrong answer, but one 
of peculiar aptness — this, I say, may be surprising but it is 
so far only mathematical; but when the anszvers not only 
appear to indicate an astounding knozdedke of and appli- 
cability to, particular circumstances ,known only to the ques- 
tioner, but afterzvards are found to ''come true," then the 
real mystery begins. 

The following cut. borrowed from ''Psychocraft," ex- 
hibiting some of the mysterious ratios and relations of 
numbers, serves to make somewhat graphic the not less mys- 
terious influences that are known to exist between cell groups 
and their centres in the human brain. 

This cut represents a small section of the chart, and 
will serve to illustrate a few of its truly amazing numerical 
wonders. The especial purpose is to illustrate the all pervad- 
ing influence exerted by the presiding "centre," over groups 
of cells, in a sane healthy brain where the centre stands for 
the ruling identity or personality of the individual. 



The most noticeable feature of the cut is that it appears 
to be made up of a series of intricate but symmetrical forms, 
among which may be recognized all the principal forms of 



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the cross: namely the swastika, the Egyptian, the Roman 
or Latin cross, the Papal, the Patriarchal, St. Andrew's, 
the Greek, and the cross of Alalta. By a little closer atten- 
tion to particulars it is seen to be composed of seven rows of 
numbers, with seven numbers in each row, forty-nine in all. 

It represents, in fact, an exact duplicate (as to numbers) 
of a small section, cut as it were from the centre of the 
chart, which has 729 cells in all, numbered consecutively 
from 1 to 729; the middle number of which is 365, which 
'^centre" as stated, may represent the personality of the in- 
dividual. Now concerning the mysterious numerical relations 
of all other cells to their centres and to each other, it will 
first be observed that each and every row of seven numbers 
that can be connected by a straight line which touches the 
centre, will each aggregate (when footed up), exactly the 
sum of seven centres, or 7 x 365 = 2,555. In this small section 
there are only four such rows. 

But this would leave untouched exactly one-half of the 
numbers surrounding the centre, which cannot similarly be 
grouped zvith the centre. Thus a further very curious 
fact is brought out; namely that every number thus left 
out can be connected to the centre by straight lines, forming 
so many pairs, the members of each pair being exactly 
equidistant from the centre; such pairs, in the cut, are 
shown by the single dotted lines through the centre. In 
every case the sum of the two numbers thus connected equals 
exactly two centres or 730. If this were all, the other 
half of the numbers joined in groups of seven, would in 
turn be deprived of the privilege of ''pairing up" in this 
truly remarkable way. But it is not all, as the presence of 
the curved or elliptical lines about the centre indicate. The 
sums of all two numbers thus connected, it will be seen, also 



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equal exactly two centres. It follows that each and every 
number throughout the entire chart is tied by just such in- 
visible liens and affinities to its mate as these lines indicate 
in this section of it. What is true of a part of the chart 
in this respect, is true of the whole of it. 

But these same mysterious pairing relations of numbers, 
could be carried on and on until one enormous chart would 
cover the almost inconceivable aggregate of the six hundred 
million cells which are said to compose the human brain ; and 
the dominant keynote of the whole gigantic theme would 
be expressed in the simple term, special groupings about 
centres. The beauty of it is, and the significance of it 
is, that this is exactly the way every human brain is divided 
up, according to the best authorities. 

"If I distinguish," says Professor Munsterberg of Har- 
vard University, in "Psychotherapy'* (1909), "ten thousand 
different pitches of tone, they would be located in ten 
thousand different cell groups, each connected through a 
special fibre with a special string in the ear." (The italics are 
mine.) 

As stated, this small part of the chart, covering only 
49 out of 729 cells, is borrowed from the book "Psychocraft," 
where it was used to illustrate a few of the wonders of 
memory by association, and attention to a particular amidst 
the ever incessant "stream" of on-crowding perceptions and 
awakened memories. 

What could more beautifully illustrate the tie that binds 
to sanity throughout these prodigious complexities in the 
play of invisible sympathies between the countless millions 
of brain cells, whose hidden activities constitute the "mil- 
lion fold manifoldness" of our mental lives, than those 
same mysterious but constant relations that exist between 



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numbers, whose invisible ties, traced in visible lines, lead 
always to symmetries in form? 

Look again on this little section of a chart the whole 
of which would cover but an infinitesimal part of a great 
chart that would represent the brain — could one be made, 
but whose prodigious ramifications of memories by asso- 
ciation alone, no conscious effort could ever picture, and 
then thank God, especially every morning when you return 
from the land of dreams, for the continued possession of 
your identity and reason : never forgetting that whether 
sleeping or waking the whole vast machinery of your psycho- 
physical existence — not spiritual — is under the dominion of 
that independent intelligence, that keeps the heart beating, 
and "makes life go," and which the author has personified 
as ELLU. 



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1. Fix attention on that one of the twenty-six questions 
in the table, which it is desired to ask; remember its index 
number. 

Note: Any question may be mentally varied to suit any par- 
ticular case — remembering, of course, to similarly apply the answer 
received. In this way questions covering every possible topic of 
human interest may be asked. 

2. Face the Light, which should come from a window 
or table lamp, not from overhead. 

Note: It is a remarkable fact that when the high priest op- 
erated the powerful oracle of Yahveh (Aaron's breastplate), it was 
necessary that he should face the light of the shekinah. The ex- 
plicit reason for this has remained a profound mystery until now; 
which is explained at length in the book * 'Psychocraft." 

While thus facing the light, make the crystals run about 
freely within the receptacle before letting them fall quietly 
into the open eye space. Never shake them. 

3. Note particularly the order of the colors of the three 
crystals that shine through the aperture. 

4. To find the answer, the index to which is formed by 
the color combination of the balls, turn to the key chart; 
first find the column (between blue lines) that has over 
(or under) it, the index number of your question; then 
find the particular combination printed on the left hand 
margin of the chart, that is exactly the same in the order of 
its colors, as shown by the crystals in the open eye space of 
the oracle. This will indicate the horizontal column (be- 
tween red lines), which you are to follow; next trace out 
where these two columns meet and cross; the cell, or small 
square, thus formed where red and blue lines cross, will bear 
a letter of the English alphabet, and a number. Now there 
are fifty-two pages of answers, two pages to each letter, so 
you next turn to the two pages denoted by the letter which 
you find in the cell; then find the same number on one of 
those pages, and there will be your answer. 

It will never fail to be an appropriate answer provided 
3^ou follow out these directions. 



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365 Indecision is your worst fault. Act now — This is your 
opportunity. 

363 You need enthusiasm. You are too slip-shod and half- 
hearted in your methods. 

361 Justice is a commodity and the price is prohibitory in 
all courts except Nature's. 

359 No — unless you win it before you go to court by a 
more perfect preparation. 

357 Here is a most elegant opportunity for a mistake, — 
but without mistakes there's no real progress. 

355 Your success depends upon conformity with the dic- 
tum of science in this matter. 

353 Do not be over anxious. The present even is not as 
bad as you think. 

378 Do not be hypercritical. The habit is easily under 
your control if you believe it. 

376 There has been an accident, but the patient is happy 
with prospect of speedy recovery. 

374 Hope deferred makes the heart sick — but unremitting 
nursing saves the life. 

372 Morbid mentality bred the first trouble, avoid it and 
improvement is certain. 

370 Do not expect wishing to perform the promises of labor 
— perform them yourself — now — and win. 

368 Intuitive perceptions are as much facts as the sun in 
heaven and the shadows on land. 



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420 Every instinctive feeling has its meaning. You have 
done some ill. 

418 n there is an evil thought in your mind at this mo- 
ment, wait until you banish it. 

388 Take that one in which legality is least doubtful, or 
humanity most prominent. 

386 That important events in dreams must be remembered. 

384 Hurrah ! It's hard to beat destiny. The other just 
asked the same question. 

382 Yes — Be to her virtues very kind, be to her faults a 
little blind— (his'n too). 

380 The love of the sexes is initial and symbolizes the 
passion of the soul for the divine. 

405 Your case is not hopeless, for love can hope where 
reason would despair. 

403 Not all the waters in the rough, rude sea can wash his 
loyalty away. 

401 "Right is more beautiful than private affection; and 
love is compatible with universal wisdom." 

399 Take not such pains to waylay and entrap that which 
will of itself fall into your hands. 

397 Persist in your efforts. Your own will come to you. 
Hold to the thought of winning. 

395 If you want food for speculation, ransack botany and 
find a new food for the belly of man. 






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393 If your present plan suits your temperament it's right, 
if not hunt one that is. 

391 All rirTecessa^'Y delays are dangerous. Strike while 
the iron is hot, if you are cool. 

389 Popularity? too much of it's a curse; make a few 
enemies doing right. 

387 No. Here's the old world and its atoms sound as a 
nut, and courts all shreds and patches. 

385 On points of law by the judges, Yes — But if by jury 
God Himself cannot foretell results. 

383 No ! You are wishing for anchorage when you should 
be on the open sea. 

381 Yes — but only to find that it was wanted only because 
it was hard to get. 

379 Will is the only thing that can resist fate ; brace up 
the will and win. 

404 In the degree in which you are preferably pessimistic 
your habits control you. 

402 Climbing a rough road happily in sight of destination 
— singing or trying to. 

400 Yes — but remember that skillful nursing accomplishes 
more than many doctors. 

398 Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed; 
increase efforts and win. 

396 Yes with hard labor, useful life, progressive virtue, a 
strong jaw and a will to use it. 



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448 The greatest treasure you will ever find is memory of 
a good deed well done. 

446 The air is full of ruling instincts ; follow your own or 
another will take possession and rule you. 

444 You are not in the right frame of mind; quit worry- 
ing, make yourself serene. 

414 Wisdom is the principal thing; in a multitude of 
counsel there is wisdom; in action more. 

412 That where no fuel is the fire goes out, so where 
there is no tale bearer the strife ceases. 

410 Yes, a certain truth is lying hid and expectant for your 
instinct to divine. 

408 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than 
with a brawling woman in a wide house. 

406 Do not demand a description of the country towards 
which you sail ; it's worth seeing for yourself. 

431 Concentration and enthusiasm is the secret of all suc- 
cess, in politics, business or love. 

429 Though he promises to his loss, he makes his promise 
good; a providence to the weaker sort. 

427 A man hath joy by the answer of her mouth; and a 
word spoken in due season how good is it. 

425 But optics sharp it needs, I ween, to see what is not 
to be seen. 

423 The difficulties are not as serious as you think — Be 
frugal and you will win. 






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If you have given as much thought to character as 
you have to money, you are rich enough. 

Smash ahead on the instinct; "a man never rises so 
high as when he knows not whither he goes." 

Do as common sense dictates — Think less of expedi- 
ency — cultivate first thoughts; they mean insight. 

It was said of the most popular man I ever knew — 
''A gentleman everywhere at all times." 

No ! keep out, your character and your reputation 
would never recognize each other in a court of law. 

The courts will not uphold you unless you have done 
your stealing legally. 

Yes ! but remember chickens hatched in the spring 
come home in the fall to roost. 

A partial failure here will score a deeper success than 
the one you are now seeking. 

However discouraging appearances are at this moment, 
happiness is coming your way. 

The only doubt of overcoming your habit is your own 
doubt of yourself ; brace up. 

Following an instinct against rhyme and reason; make 
a note of it to compare with verbal answer. 

Yes — but remember God's pure, fresh air is life-giving 
and free; let the patient use it. 

Trust a good physician's diagnosis ; not necessarily his 
medicine; trust your own common sense. 



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476 Leave off thinking of your doubts, and work for it 
and improvement will come. 

474 Treasure has the man who can say, Tomorrow do thy 
w^orst, for I have lived today. 

472 "Trust your instincts to the end, though you can render 
no reason.'' 

470 If you have an evil thought in your heart, leave the 
balls at rest. 

440 Take counsel of wife or your next best friends ; love 
will see the way more clearly. 

438 Happy is the man who only strays in his sleep — make a 
note of it. 

436 A loving one with laughing eyes, is riding with the 
train that flies. 

434 ''The fairest fortune that can befall man is to be 
guided by his destiny to that which is truly his own." 

459 First, Be bold; second, Be bold; evermore be bold; 
third. Be not too bold. 

457 Yes. You do not know the meaning of the simplest 
words until you love and aspire. 

455 Let his quiet reserve reassure you, for smooth runs the 
water where the brook is deep. 

453 A wrathful man stirreth up strife ; but he that is slow 
to anger appeaseth strife. 

451 Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear — 
make the best of it — lest you forget. 






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When you have done well what w^as assigned you, you 
cannot hope too much or ask too much. 

Don't trust too much to luck in this matter; it is not 
luck that makes good steel. 

God hates a quitter, at the same time, don't stick inere- 
ly to be ungodly stubborn. 

When you can pay every debt at maturity, fear not 
to undertake new obligations. 

Never waste a moment planning revenge ; forget it, 
time is too precious for squabbles. 

Go not to extremes — The extreme of the law is the 
extreme of injustice — sleep on it. 

The more your adversary blusters, the weaker his 
case. , Keep quiet, lay low for ducks. 

Well, you seem to be out of luck this time ; pray God 
to help you. 

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed; 
you have obstacles to overcome. 

Continual courage will w4n in the end and great joy 
follow — cheer up — persist. 

Do not hesitate about taking full command of your- 
self now; it is a critical time for you. 

The absent one has a bad attack of grumps ; dis- 
appointed in not receiving letters from home. 

Trust a good physician and a good nurse, but be unre- 
mitting in your own efforts. 



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504 The penalty for transgression of a natural law is not 
eternal; the balance reached, the patient recovers. 

502 Eternal vigilence is the price of improvement here. 



500 • They that cannot have what they like, should like what 
they have.* "Chew the rag" less and your food more. 

498 There's no smoke without a fire; but the more smoke, 
the less fire there is. 

496 Your ELLU that forms the combinations demands you 
first make amends for an injury done. 

466 The man who succeeds is the one who is helped by a 
good woman — ask her. 

464 That the brain in sleep takes impressions as wool takes 
dye, more lasting than the fabric. 

462 Proves no love can be bound by absence against the 
love that draws. 

460 Miserable beyond all description the unhappy pair who 
clash in domestic disputes each day. 

485 Yes, a good woman's love lifts above the gray level 
of intellect to the realms of eternity. 

483 Snatch the hasty kiss from the side-long maid at first 
opportunity and watch results. 

481 Expectation fails most where it promises most; be 
moderate. 

479 You never shall, so help you truth and God; embrace 
each other's love in banishment. 






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Newton said he made all his discoveries by always 
intending his mind — Do likewise. 

Yes ! in a way you do not now dream of — be happy 
— the Lord will answer the prayer of effort. 

You will gain a little money and lose sweetness, in 
proportion as you value the gain. 

There is no place for you in any business till you quit 
the squabbles of the past. 

Spontaneous action is always the best, to deliberate 
too much is to muddle guiding instincts. 

Never fear that others will misunderstand you — Be 
true to yourself; be kind — don't explain. 

No ! For a bad compromise is better than a good law 
suit, any day in the year. 

Yes ! For thrice armed is he who hath his quarrel 
just, especially if defendant. 

Modify your wish that its destined success may bring 
you no vain regrets on the morrow. 

The favorable termination of your undertaking is as- 
sured, but be patient, relax no effort. 

It is best sometimes that a misfortune runs its full 
course. It is so now — wait and hope. 

Yes ! but if you write down the date of every repulse 
of temptation you will soon have none to record. 

At this moment consulting a wise doctor who wisely 
says, ''more work — three dollars please." 



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532 Killing his golden silence with the garrulous gabble 
and noise of empty speech. 

530 The case is doubtful. Confidence and care possibly 
may avail, — a fighting chance. 

528 So long as you do nothing for improvement you prison 
yourself in the chalk circle of imbecility. 

526 In idle wishes fools supinely stay; be there a will, and 
wisdom finds a way to treasures. 

524 Coming events cast their shadows before. This is a 
warning. 

522 An adverse influence is present. Wait 5 minutes. 



492 Take the one that involves the least strain on self 
respect and be happy. 

490 The dead of midnight is the noon of perceptions be- 
yond thought — write it down and watch. 

488 A little lover comes this way, its sweetheart's comfort, 
joy and stay. 

513 Let the woman take her elder, more fickle by nature, 
his age helps her hold on him. 

511 Defer not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun 
to thee may never rise. 

509 Yes, and desert places shall rejoice and blossom as the 
rose. 

507 Man's attractions are proportioned to his destiny ; con- 
fidence begets confidence. 






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A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind, and kind- 
ness will open the golden door of reconciliation. 

"Attempt, and never stand to doubt, nothing's so hard 
but search will find it out." 

Be content with small help and work all the harder, 
and success is sure. 

It's a pity that you have time to devote to money 
making; a genius like yours should originate. 

Don't go shooting for snipe when bears are in sight 
— hit the trail of your inclination. 

Your first instinct was the right one. The crystals 
can only verify intuitions. 

You don't need to think of it at all; just do better 
work, that's all. 

If the honor of another is in your keeping, fight hard 
— even to the death, forgetting self. 

Be scrupulously just regardless of whether you are 
to win or lose — and you cannot avoid victory. 

Take heed before you act, is the wish worthy of you? 
recast it. Try the preliminary question. 

If your plans are well considered, they will prosper. 
You are too prone to lawlessness, don't scatter. 

Yes ! already the source of unhappiness is growing 
weak — right impulses are sprouting anew. 

Every time you defer decision against a bad habit you 
grow just so much the weaker to resist. 



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560 You are in great danger unless you overcome it this 
time. Habit fixed is a relentless master. 

558 In the company of young people, where laughter, 
music and joy gladden the heart of age. 

556 The patient will, in time, be a free spirit in a higher 
life, and help shape your ideality. 

554 Improve this time by force of will. Success is the 
most life giving tonic known to the world. 

552 The best preparation for finding treasure is love of 
work. 

550 It is good; your ELLU will help you. Watch for and 
record results. 

548 There is no adverse influence or personality now 
present — go ahead. 

518 Read Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay on self-reliance. 
It will exercise your powers of insight. 

516 You have been too long learning the existence of 
your ELLU. 

514 Still in the groove of indetermination — ask this ques- 
tion another day. 

539 Love thyself last, God first, and that sweet neighbor 
next thyself. 

537 To seek a substitute for Love is to set a candle alight 
at both ends up to the sun. 

535 Well, not exactly — yes — this is butterfly time for one 
of you, crysalis for the other. 






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Never trust your business to one who is not in some 
respects better than yourself. 

Your if is the only peacemaker; much virtue in an if. 
If you meet half way. 

When you can cloy the edge of appetite by the im- 
agination of a feast. 

Do not cross a bridge before you arrive at it. Your 
difficulties are about to vanish. 

Better take fair chances than tie. up your talent in a 
napkin; keep your money earning. 

Be willing to merge your identity in the good of the 
institution you work for, or quit it. 

There are twenty ways of doing this ; one way is a 
short cut; reason follows nineteen; instinct, the one. 

Be proud of what you do and think and say, and 
others will be proud of your acquaintance. 

It were imbecile to go to law for the pride of an 
opinion which may change over night. 

Fight for your rights? Oh, yes, but your only right 
is your right to be useful. 

First be sure in your own heart that the wish results 
in no injury to another. 

Do you really need this thing? Reflect, ponder well. 
You may thank God for failure. 

The better influence of ELLU is slowly evolving to 
better things for you. 



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588 This you call unhappiness was a necessary sort. It 
has a wise purpose. The end will be betterment. 

586 The moment you perceive the first ill results from the 
habit, is the moment to quit. 

584 In danger from an enemy; but a good lawyer is giving 
needed warning at this moment. 

582 All earthly pleasures soon will cease, but joys un- 
known may then increase. 

580 The strength of your desire for improvement meas- 
ures what you may expect. 

578 Yes, with due consideration for the rights of others 
and hard work. 

576 It is the reflex of a dream you have forgotten. It 
is a warning to do no evil. 

574 Now is the hour propitious. Proceed confidently and 
give heed to your answer. 

544 Decide on the action that will cause someone else the 
least sorrow. That's wisdom. Get wusdom. 

542 That you possess an independent intelligence, keener 
than your waking one; study to use it. 

567 The kindness and truth of that same one a constant 
source of joy. 

565 In loving companionship life shall pass in sweet con- 
tent, so long as mutual debts are paid. 

563 Fly betimes, for only they conquer love that run 
away; 'tis absence makes the heart grow fonder. 






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Falling in love is a matter of intermittent propinquity, 
the cure is propinquity — hitch up your chairs. 

It is better to be deceived than to distrust, however 
this time your suspicions are groundless. 

Beware lest the excusing of a fault make the fault 
worse by the excuse. 

Yes, in the most unexpected way. Continue enquiries. 



More than half your difficulties are imaginary. You 
exaggerate them. You will overcome them. 

Yes, if you want to pay dear for a very little wisdom, 
better buy only to hold. 

So you wish to get settled? Only so far as you are 
unsettled is there any hope for you. 

The day has come. Get right down to the work of a 
decision now, — you have deferred too long. 

Think yourself a god in the chrysalis and act worthily 
of the conception. 

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches 
hang, that jurymen may dine. 

Only when you are prepared and have covered every 
point before going to court. 

Desire is the most powerful force in nature. Use it 
only for worthy ends. 

One accustomed to hard work is equal to any achieve- 
ment resolved upon. 



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616 It will be well to modify your expectations in this mat- 
ter for your success will be only moderately good. 

614 Yes — everything in its course, impulses to right action 
are slowly but surely bringing joy. 

612 Be temperate in all things and you have nothing to 
fear ; pray God to help you. 

610 Foolishly well; playing with fire; save up your oil of 
kindness for the blisters. 

608 The patient has a chance — confidence is what is needed 
— a quiet confident nurse will save where medicine fails. 

606 Instead of two bites with a single chew, one bite with 
thirty's the thing for you. 

604 Yes, have the will to methodize your life and win the 
treasure health. 

602 Good ! This is a reflex from invisible influences for 
happiness; record dreams in the morning. 

600 If you concentrate your mind on the question first, 
the answer will come true, without fail. 

570 Fear, hate and prejudice deprive a person of power 
to arrive at correct conclusions — dispel them. 

568 That he who is most positive is most often wrong. 

593 The coming one will be monarch of all he surveys in 
your happy heart. 

591 If constant as the northern star and kind as the gentle 
rain to one another. 



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Dare do all that may become a man; who dares do 
more, is none, but love is blind. 

Some cupids kill with arrows, some with traps ; this 
time with fraps and scraps and little mishaps. 

If he seems untrue; it will be because his idea of 
your best interests differs from your own. 

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures 
of silver — (thirteen words, very lucky answer.) 

It were as easy a hap to pluck bright honor from the 
pale faced moon as find this lost. 

Overcome your fear of trouble and the cause will 
vanish — you will succeed. 

Little and often fills the purse, more certainly than 
long chances. 

A change would do you no good unless the place 
seeks you ; make it. 

The present is alone yours — don't shirk — contemplate 
nothing but action. 

One way is mind your own business thereby allowing 
others to mind theirs. 

Though you think yourself locked up in steel, you 
are naked if injustice corrupts your conscience. 

The issue is doubtful in the degree in which you are 
unprepared. 

Nothing in the world can hold out against your per- 
sistent desire — Never let it injure another. 



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644 The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately 
wicked — Go slow. 

642 You will succeed beyond your expectations and pride 
goes before a fall ; be warned. 

640 Get interested to produce your best — and joy will 
come. 

638 Habit soon becomes second nature. Look out. 



636 Writing you a letter which you will be glad to receive ; 
see that you answer promptly. 

634 Health will come with the slow sure progress of the 
gladsome Spring — and incessant chewing. 

632 Whatever you do, don't worry — work your jaw not 
in bewailing but in chewing more. 

630 No. Idle and visionary wishing is your worst fault. 



628 It means good. ELLU rules next to soul. Its king- 
dom is more fair and fertile than that of reason. 

626 There is no time like the present. Improve it, the 
balls are now responsive. 

596 Resolve them into separate questions and trust the 
crystals; they never fail. 

621 Cowards die many times before their death. Fear 
nothing, but record the circumstance. 

619 Yes with happy smile and gentle ways, will make you 
loved through all your days. 



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They in their earthy Canaan placed, long time shall 
dwell and prosper. 

Decide now — for when a lady's in the case you know, 
all other things give place. 

The truth is lying hid in the other's heart with a glad 
expectancy of the finding. 

The person will be true to you to his cost. See that 
you reciprocate becomingly. 

Out of the nettle danger you will pluck the flower — 
reconciliation — by a rescue. 

Not without going to law, but law says, "take you the 
shells, we lawyers take the oysters." 

A glorious success is destined for you. Try to attain 
it without help ; be heroic. 

To succeed offset against the spasms of energy born of 
genius, the stern continuity of drill. 

Tell no tales about your fellow workers. Quit that 
and do your work well where you are. 

You know nothing of the future, except in sleep ; now 
is the time for action. 

Don't be too intent on popularity. Forget it — be 
natural and kind. 

Possession is nine points of the law, but par is a thou- 
sand points, hard to win. 

If your character is better than your case, you w411 re- 
joice at loss and think it success. 



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672 If prevarication will win, lose the case and rejoice in 
the rescue of respect. 

670 Beware lest the undreamed powers of your appetency 
is your own undoing — Go slow. 

668 Do not boast when the success ordained for you ar- 
rives ; knock on wood and keep silent. 

666 This is the number of the beast and the man. From 
this moment ELLU wins. 

664 Cultivate your powers of abstraction and bad habits 
will lose their charm for you. 

662 Taking an involuntary swimming lesson which will 
lead to a revelation if you cross-question. 

660 The present illness surely does not mean that earthly ■ 
joys by him'll no more be seen. 

658 Cheerfulness and determination will directly affect 
a change for the better. 

656 Your greatest treasure is a merry heart. 



654 It means, study ELLU. So shall morning wake you 
to delight. 

652 Point your finger at arm's length. If it trembles drink 
a glass of water, then proceed. 

622 Decide quickly on the one that first forms in your 
morning thought. 

647 Joyful news will come to you on the morrow. Fail 
not to record the fact. 



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Perhaps, after a long, longtime. Ask again tomorrow. 



643 Sure, because the love of the sexes is initial and sym- 
bolizes the divine in nature. 

641 ' The primrose path of dalliance is not so wholesam-e 
as the broad highway of marriage. 

The sad old moon at lovers' duplicity winks, so some- 
where around's another dear charmer methinks. 

This friend will endure much to remain loyal to your 
interests ; trust him. 

If the rascal has not given me medicine to make me 
love him, I'll be hanged. 

All things lost are hunted with more zest than pos- 
session gives — so enjoy the hunt. 

Destiny is kind to the hopeful in the end, hope on, 
hope ever, but don't quit work. 

Little skiffs must keep near shore, bigger boats may 
venture more. 

Don't spoil your chance for a big promotion by seek- 
ing a small one; forget yourself in your work. 

Do nothing rashly ; take one night's sleep upon it, then 
decide on the morning's first impulse. 

The recipe is kindness, and then more kindness — 
even under injuries, and never tell of it. 

Never go to law for mere vindication; your friends 
don't require it; no matter for others. 



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700 To go to law for revenge is to wilfully walk into fire; 
don't save the oil of kindness for blisters. 

698 The loss of this case will be a blessing in disguise ; en- 
tertain the angel well. 

696 It were much better if your wish were to create rather 
than to own. 

694 You will be envied and admired for its bold daring 
and brilliant success. 

692 Anything that will arouse courage wnll help. Banish 
fear; brace up ! 

690 Get acquainted with you own ELLU; then live up to 
your conception of its approval. 

688 Counting a pile of money just received — The happy 
consummation of your good advice. 

686 The patient needs a long rest to recover former vig- 
orous health — change of scene will help. 

684 Never look on the dark side. Cheerfulness and de- 
termination will accomplish much. 

682 No man of woman born, coward or brave, but can 
find treasure if there is a will. 

680 You will probably find some regret present to explain 
them. Don't do it again. 

678 There is an adverse perturbation. Wait a few min- 
utes and it will disperse. 

675 Truth is severe though by fairy fingers dressed — either 
is equally unfortunate. 



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Quite the reverse of what you imagine. Record its 
main features ^ watch and compare. 

Yes and have a long reign in the proud dominion of a 
home unbroken. 

There are six requisites in every happy marriage. The 
first is faith, and the remaining five are confidence. 

A good wufe opens the gates of your being to the 
celestial fire that irradiates all things. 

When you're in love all things show it ; you thought so 
once, but now you know it. 

The friends thou hast and their adoption tried ; grapple 
them to thy soul with hooks of steel. 

Every quarrel which begins in nothing and comes to 
a struggle for supremacy is endless. Forget it. 

Xews of the missing will come as cold waters to a 
thirsty soul — possess your soul in patience. 

Put a little more enthusiasm into the measure of your 
expectations. 

It is better to venture and lose than never to venture 
at all; be a good loser. 

If your pursuit is pleasure, you will never catch up — 
put more enthusiasm into your work. 

A habit of indecision weakens intuitive judgment; trust 
your instincts and act. 

Let that which you learn in the house of your friend, 
be as though it were not. 



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728 Forget little injuries as though you knew them not as 
such — great wisdom in forgetting. 

726 Those who live in glass houses should not throw- 
stones, your case is fragile. 

724 If your cause is not just, winning it is losing more 
than you gain. 

722 Your wishing alone is vain. Know your desire right 
first, then work for it. 

720 Concentrate your determination. Will to succeed and 
success is yours — Don't be a floater. 

718 You lack enthusiasm and self reliance; cultivate both, 
to be happy. 

716 Do not allow yourself to be idle and bad habits will 
die of their own accord. 

714 Jt^st crawling out from under an overturned auto. 
Nobody hurt as mucn as scared and soiled. 

712 He's most desperate ill, sir ; I do not think these ten 
months will recover him. 

710 After a little more trouble, joy will come. Cheer up. 



708 Live in the present; forget the past; don't worry and 
treasure is sure. 

706 Feelings are a foresight of results. Trust them — 
watch out. Remember and compare. 

704 Avoid confusion of influence by fixing your mind on 
the particular question you desire to ask. 



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701 Take that alternative in which you can be enthusiastic. 
Enthusiasm wins most of life's battles. 

699 That it's possible to know by the study of sleep, the 
fine demarcations between freedom and fate. 

697 Looks dark now. Ask again in ten minutes. 



As love is blind and destiny deaf ; disparity of ages, 
seems to be a question of feelings. 

Take the one that sits beside thee ! Take the goods 
the gods provide thee. 

Down on your knees and thank God for the great 
love that is given thee. 

While it costs that one nothing, that one will be true 
to your interests ; and not much longer. 

If reasons are as plenty as blackberries, give no man 
a reason on compulsion. 

The missing and the mystery goes up in smoke, warm 
your hands ere the embers die. 

Relax not in your efforts to earn it; a little needed 
help will come in good time. 

Why — no — you will not be lucky, but it will help gen- 
eral circulation a little. 

"Blessed is the man who has found his work," and 
sticks to it joyously, early and late. 

You have less control over your judgments than you 
imagine; cultivate spontaneity. 



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27 Do something — Your action will solve the doubt the- 
ory cannot solve, says one. 

25 Let pride and joy in doing your work well, be your 
religion; deeds speak louder than words. 

23 Even the Bible says it is better to be defrauded than 
go to law. 

21 Think more of vindication than of revenge and you 
will win; more preparation is necessary. 

19 If you think the sweet spirits ELLU would approve, 
your wish is sure of attainment. 

17 Ponder well and long whether success in this would 
be well for you; trust luck less. 

15 Ask yoursef if you are in any way at fault. If not 
cease all worry. 

13 Get congenial work and work till you are tired out. 
The joy of earned rest kills bad habits. 

11 Happy as a lark, working in the new position your in- 
fluence led to. 

9 Whate'er betides by destiny 'tis done; and better bear 
like men than vainly seek to shun. 

7 Hope on, another day will bring glorious improvement. 

5 You are too lazy. Get up and work for it. 

3 Get acquainted with ELLU and you will know the 
folly of wrong doing. 



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That temperate exercise of instincts, zuithin legiti- 
mate channels^ helps the mind unfold. 

Do not hesitate, your own mentality is ascendant ; the 
moment is auspicious. 

The one that rouses the strongest desire wins ; all 
things come through desire. 

That for a new enthusiasm in life, subdue your 
sempiternal waking memory of ills; forget them. 

Do you but think right and you can draw with the 
magnet of your desire. 

When your constitution craves a mate, and you are 
good in forgetting, there's happiness in marriage. 

What's sweeter than the two lids of your sweet- 
heart's eyes? Why the four lids of wife and baby. 

This was settled ages before you were born. Nature's 
cunning hand fashioned you for each other. 

You can be certain of help when it's most needed; 
but it's not most needed always as you think. 

Reconciliations ! Lord how ; long must these ever- 
lasting squabbles deter progress? 

Have you forgotten what the poet's ancient timepiece 
said? Never-forever. 

Cheer up ! Cheer up ! Look at Billikens and smile ; 
the worst is yet to come. 

The thing is worth considering. Sleep more and de- 
cide this yourself in the morning. 



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56 If you are a hypochondriac, never try any game of 
chance. Fortune frowns on cultivated bile. 

81 Congenial work which gives joy in the product is bet- 
ter than little work and big pay. 

79 Be fearlessly just now, but not hard fisted in this de- 
cision — yield something to decency. 

77 Don't think it alone but do unto others as you would 
that they should do to you. 

75 Prepare all your papers beforehand. When you are 
sure of winning, throw them all in the fire. 

73 You will not win — You are not prepared — Win your 
case before you go into court by preparation. 

71 The longing is vain. Change it in respect to its end 
and it will be otherwise. 

69 You must do more than command success — you must 
deserve it. Then come it surely will. 

67 Want of congenial work is often a cause of unhappi- 
ness. Better days are coming. 

65 Asking this question shows that you need an introduc- 
tion to your self. Study your instincts. Find ELLU. 

63 Ask him to explain how he came to be in .another 
man's melon patch. 

61 A merry heart maketh a glad patient, but by a sorrow- 
ful countenance the spirit is broken. 

59 If you strongly desire improvement, you will have it — 
"where there's a will, there's a way." 






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57 When the skies fall you can catch larks, and find 
treasure. 

55 Your instinctive feelings are not there for nothing. 
The way of the transgressor is hard. 

80 Resist the influence of doubt; "to the persevering mor- 
tal the blessed immortals are swift." 

50 Ask your better half — ELLU "will solve the doubt 
your reason cannot fathom." 

48 Go ahead on intuitions ; a man is never so sure as 
when he knows he acts on impulse. 

46 Be prepared for a surprise and give the visitor 
another by assuming indifference. 

44 Truth is the basis of confidence ; mutual confidence is 
the only sure basis for a happy marriage. 

42 Love sought is good, but given unsought is better ; 
but — marry anyway. 

40 If it's a woman, she's therefore to be won; if a man, 
why then it's a matter of management. 

38 Look in my face, and say if there is aught I have not 
dared, I would not dare for thee. 

36 If thou wouldst have a mule kick thee twice, re- 
new the provocation. 

34 Have courage, you will find the lost and solve the 
mystery — in sleep. Forget not the whispered charm. 

32 Cheer up — man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly 
upward, trouble's a great developer. 



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84 Your difficulties are your greatest blessings, if you 
overcome them, so then persist. 

82 The goddess of fortune favors the merry heart — but 
don't force it, cultivate spontaneity. 

107 That employment into which you can put your whole 
heart is better than riches. 

105 Tomorrow never comes — so in this particular case 
'twere well to defer action till tomorrow. 

103 Cultivate the art of being a good listener. It is bet- 
ter than talking and costs more effort at self-control. 

101 The greater your provocation, the greater the victory 
by avoiding law suits, but never shirk duty. 

99 Your honor will be sustained with substantial results, 
be just and fear not. 

97 Your desire is a powerful magnet that draws all things 
to itself — switch on the current with care. 

95 Do not so strenuously seek what you do not need, and 
would toss aside if gained. 

93 Yes — You will receive a letter soon, announcing suc- 
cess and a great joy. 

91 The consciousness of a vicious habit is half the victory. 
Follow conscience — a bully guide. 

89 Sneezing, the result of a cold from imprudent expos- 
ure — when ^tother dear, charmer was away. 

87 The night will be long coming when he will sleep, and 
never wake again on earth. 






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85 The less you think about it, the better. Joy comes with 
the morrow. 

83 You will find about the same kind of treasure tomor- 
row that you find today; make the best of today. 

108 You have done some evil. Instincts are guides to 
right action. 

106 Wait till the clock strikes or some musical sound vi- 
brates in your ear; harmony's the thing. 

76 The crystals will solve this doubt in their answer to 
another question — select it thoughtfully. 

74 That your memory needs improving — by remember- 
ing your dreams, and comparing events. 

72 Hearts now beating in sweetest unison, will draw 
you soon together. 

70 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding — 
especially in wedlock. 

68 Ask HER — Be as va'/ient as the flea that dares eat his 
breakfast on the lips of a lion. 

66 You know nothing of the deepest glory of life until 
you realize the fact of the love you have won. 

64 He that never kept a friend need blame only himself 
— change your habits or this one too, will quit. 

62 For her the spouse prepares the bridal ring, for her 
white virgins hymeneals sing. 

60 Yea — though the breath of disappointment should chill 
the heart, speedily gloweth it again, warmed by hope. 



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112 Write down all the circumstances connected with the 
loss. Search with this to help you. 

110 I have been young and now^ am old, yet have I not 
seen the righteous forsaken. 

135 Sadness and despondency drive luck away. But trust 
not too much to luck. 

133 Find your aptitude and stick to that; environment 
counts, keep it in the reckoning. 

131 Defer nothing that you can settle satisfactorily now, 
but go further into the facts. 

129 You will be loved and popular only as you practice 
the sublime truths of simple honesty and kindness. 

127 The law is for vice. Avoid it as you would a wild 
hyena with a fire brand tied to his tail. 

125 Any victory at law is full enough of shame, in this 
case disgust with yourself as well. 

123 In the degree of the sincerity of the wish and im- 
proved opportunity will fulfillment come. 

121 Yes — if you persist and work honestly for it, success 
cannot evade enthusiasm. 

119 Congenial work and time will do more than anything 
else to bring happier days. 

117 The moment the inclination to the habit comes, that 
moment find work to do, pound the air, get busy. 

115 Sailing on rough water and very seasick, sadly care- 
less of personal appearance. 



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113 After lif es fitful fever he sleeps well ; be sure he sees 
a smiHng face on waking. 

Ill A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a 
broken spirit drieth the bones. 

109 If you would iind rich ore get ELLU to guide you. 



134 Good if you are brave enough to stand by your con- 
victions of right, against all odds. 

132 The only present disturbance is want of confidence in 
your own competence and intelligence. 

102 That which counts the most for humanity is your 
surest success in this dilemma. • 

100 An independent intelligence seeking conscious recogni- 
tion with an important message for you. 

98 Yes, a little danger — but good discretion will save 
future companionship. 

96 In proportion as the woman's love arouses the divine 
emotions of the first day. 

94 . Marry not without means to pay the milliner, for so 
shouldest thou avoid a squall on Easter. 

92 Yes — with such a smile as though the earth were 
newly made, and you two owned it all. 

90 ^^o — Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of 
trouble is like a broken tooth and a foot out of joint. 

88 Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, and 
all went merry as a marriage bell. 



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140 Men must be taught not as if ignorant but unknown 
things proposed as things forgot. 

138 The missing will be found, but the mystery will 
remain unsolved. 

136 Go to the ant thou sluggard, consider her ways and be 
wise. Get busy. 

161 Faith in ELLU will help the matter. Try one night's 
good sleep before deciding. 

159 If your work cannot elicit the best that's in you, try 
a change; find your natural bent. 

157 F)o not let a good opportunity slip away by dilatory 
methods — master the subject now, decide quickly. 

155 Be more careful of what you say than of what you do, 
and be more kindly to all. 

153 Go ask the man who has just lost a good case, and 
good sleep and good money. 

151 Your victory is the discomfort and shame of another. 
Is it worth while? Consider much. 

149 In what degree is the wish consciously unworthy? In 
that degree will its fulfillment be your failure. 

147 Yes — But remember, success at the cost of any dis- 
honest act sets the law of compensation in motion. 

145 Get away from unhappy influences ; transplanted weeds 
oft make fine flowers. 

143 Look out how and what you eat. Vicious living- 
strengthens vicious habits. Fletcherize ! Chew. 



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141 Trying very hard to be a cheerful loser in the game 
he is playing. 

139 Cheerfulness in the presence of the patient— your faith 
will strengthen his faith and hasten his recovery. 

Joy and Temperance and Repose, slam the door on the 
doctor's nose; hope on. 

What greater treasure do you want than the love of 
a red headed girl? 

Intuitions give more self knowledge in a night and a 
day, than ages of philosophy. 

Drop frivolity which is altogether too common to 
your nature, then go ahead. 

Wit^ is not as merchandise which decreaseth in the 
usmg. Think it all out again. You lack decision. 

Dreams would many things of strange consequence 
reveal, if you would remember and compare. 

The time of the singing of birds is come, and the 
voice of the absent will be heard soon. 

In the proportion that mutual confidence and intimate 
comraderie are cultivated. 

Marry, say Past and Future, Hope and New Life. 

118 Tis said love is never mutual; one loves, the other 
consents to be loved. 

116 Yes— Yet, verily is the man a marvel whom truth 
can write a friend indeed. 



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168 Let him feel that his pursuits have as deep an interest 
to you as your own, mutuality will thrive. 

166 Give the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness ; 
a deed of kindness in silence. 

164 Yes — Enjoy the relief of good news. You will find 
the lost and the mystery be solved. 

189 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Don't expect 
it; work the harder with new resolutions. 

187 Consult ELLU; (the transmitted virtues of your an- 
cestors), if favorable, go in deep or not at all. 

185 Stick to what you are sure of, until you can lay better 
hold on a sure improvement. 

183 Deliberation is a good thing but don't wear it thread- 
bare — decision is a better. 

181 Be sincere and true in heart, generous, unselfish and 
just always in all things. 

179 What go to law of your own free will and accord? 
Never ! That is hardly ever. 

177 Win! but for what? Pride of opinion and loss of 
manhood, and a little vile money? 

175 Would your heart covet the desire if written out for 
your best friend's eye? then change it. 

173 It will be hard to estimate the far reaching effects of 
the great success awaiting you. 

171 The trouble has come from bad companions ; choose 
more wisely. 






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169 Find out what gives you the the most lasting pleasure 
— cultivate that with all your ability. 

167 Thinks of having a picture taken to send to you, ELLU 
put it in his mind — look for it. 

We never understand why some are taken, while others 
remain who would be glad to go. 

More favorable change will come by determination to 
improve. 

Your luck at finding is so good — hunt for love and 
find it the greatest of all. 

Good. But compare events with premonitions and 
keep a written record. 

By strong effort, overcome present adverse influences, 
holding your mind on the question. 

One self -approving hour, whole years outweight of 
stupid stares and loud applause. 

Past and Future draws in sleep, the ring of destiny 
which no man can step out of hut may bend. 

As cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from 
a far country — for you. 

By mutual deference each to the other's opinion con- 
tinued beyond the honeymoon. 

A little red pepper is good for the constitution; so 
is conjugal love in proportion. 

Take^ heed that what charms you most is a reality and 
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196 Absence strengtheneth friendship when the last recol- 
lections were kindly. 

194 There be few who deserve to have thy confidence. 
This one is of them. 

192 The highest wisdom often consists in mere passivity — 
patient waiting, no loss. 

190 When the skies fall and the tides fail, the lost will 
come within thy pale. 

215 Show yourself friendly if you need the help of a 
friend. 

213 Stick to your regular business and leave gambling to 
others, unless you are a cheerful loser. 

211 Beware of rainbow chasing. Consider mainly the 
natural bent in which you are proficient. 

209 Cultivate a habit of decision by prompt action, and 
retentive memory to compare results. 

207 Realize that you are a god in the crysalis, but don't 
play to the gallery of your own conceit. 

205 Only in defence ; never be the plaintiff in a case if 
avoidable — faultless preparation wins. 

203 You will certainly lose at last more than you gain, 
so stick to your last. 

201 Yes. 'Tis the same to him who weareth a shoe as if 
the whole earth were covered with leather. 

199 You are too timid; be bold and strong; work for it, 
conquer your own doubt or you will fail. 



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The charms of old influences are coming back. Study 
ELLU and — Persevere ! 

If you have got to the point of recognizing it as bad, 
and do it again, make your will. 

There's a musical instrument and singing and playing 
in company ; and a deep disquiet that longs for silence. 

The ticket for Elysium is first-class, good to the end 
of this trip of life. 

Fresh air is free, use it. There's no monopoly on 
hope; you couldn't live four minutes without them. 

Not this year nor next — but some time, yes. 

212 Your fear is an inheritance protective in nature; do 
no wrong. 

210 The balls shine with joy for the pure in heart. 

180 Let all impediments in your way be as added motives 
to that action wherein you excel. 

It means that you must profit by your fate; adversity 
is the prosperity of the great. 

How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad 
tidings — yet he will wear nines in time. 

As nothing can be hidden from love's perceptions, to 
be happy both must be open, true and frank. 

Marry at once, be true and be glad. "He that winna 
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224 There is no profit where there is no pleasure. Let 
natural inclination be your guide. 

222 The thread of your two lives are entwined in one; 
unseen influences weaving a beautiful pattern. 

220 I tell you but the simple truth, you may trust this 
guileless youth. 

218 Behold when the one is threatened with harm, the 
other uplifts a protecting arm. 

243 Not yet; be contented to leave the search to others 
whose wits are less disturbed. 

241 By strong enthusiasm, man makes friends as fast 
as the sun breeds clouds. 

239 Yes, far beyond your expectations, but the main trick 
IS to hold your gains. """"^^ 

237 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but a 
rolling stone gathers polish. 

235 Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do today, 
for tomorrow never comes. 

233 You can be a saint now, without dying; be on time 
and keep your word, pay as you go. 

231 If you are the defendant, fight to win ; go slow if you 
are to start the fight. 

229 Yes but, "success is sometimes a subtle contrivance 
for bringing about a man's defeat." 

227 Great will be the joy following the destined fulfill- 
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225 Your blood needs the tonic your glorious success will 
bring it — work with enthusiasm. 

223 Show your faith in ELLU by living right, joy will 
come. 

221 Take care! the will is already weakened, else would 
there be no propounding this question. 

219 Finding to his cost that all's not gold that glitters, 
either in the ore or in the mind's eye. 

217 For unto him health shall be given, if he desires it 
in his very soul. 

242 Improvement is a matter of faith and hard work. 

240 The only treasure you need is more sense. There is 
absolutely no substitute for it. 

238 That a bad habit is gaining on your will— Look out! 

236 Your mind is too fickle and frivolous at present- 
wait awhile. 

206 Consult your instinct—after sleep— as to natural apti- 
tudes and inclinations. 

204 It means you better read less quickly, think more 
slowly, and scatter less. 

202 Get the candy and all the sweet trappings for a lover's 
feast. 

200 If they are not too much in each other's company, in 
judicious absence the heart grows fonder. 



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252 If thou wilt be loved, render implicit confidence — with 
these conditions, yes. 

250 Don't marry merely the difference to see, twixt 
tweedle-de-dum and tweedle-de-dee. 

248 Brace up, persevere, and don't get too sentimental; 
practical deeds will win. 

246 Yes, but "How few there be among men who forget 
themselves for others" — a jewel this. 

244 Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, and make 
two lovers happy — propinquity cures. 

269 Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt, nothing's 
so hard but search will find it out. 

267 The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to 
the strong — your opportunity comes today. 

265 No — only in what you buy to hold as investment, after 
investigation of facts. 

263 Do better work where you are and you will stick to 
your present pursuit from choice. 

261 Unstable as water thou shalt not excel; cultivate the 
habit of prompt decision. 

259 Yes, by punctuality, for that is the soul of honor and 
of lasting popularity. 

257 Do not submit to imposition, but be defendant if pos- 
sible — meanwhile prepare points. 

255 Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the 
truth and win — self-respect at least. 



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If you do not follow the wish with generous earnest 
action, it will fail. 

Not this time. But remember if at first you don't 
succeed, try, try again. 

It is not at all worth while to make yourself un- 
happy for what is imaginary — unreal. 

Your worst habit is your lawless disregard of the 
rights of others and not the one you think. 

Walking rapidly towards water, ask about it and 
hear a strange story. 

Kings may be blessed, but ELLU is glorious, o'er a' 
the ills o' life victorious. 

Worse unless you keep at work, sleep eight hours and 
tell the truth. 

Your treasure will be a beautiful old age, long pre- 
pared for by persistent kindness to others. 

If you want safety to take the place of danger, study 
and follow ELLU. 

Drop frivolity, hold the question in mind, for the 
present moment is propitious. 

In which would success give you most pride and self- 
approval? Take that. 

It means avoid excesses or like Aaron's serpent, it will 
swallow all. .. 

'Tis a hard question this time — The absent one seems 
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278 Hide not your grief nor your gladness ; be open one 
with the other — communicate. 

276 Seek a good wife diligently, for she is the best gift 
of God's providence. 

274 The heart can ne'er a transport know, that never feels 
a pain — but don't be too anxious. 

272 A talebearer revealeth secrets; but he that is a faithful 
spirit conceals the matter. 

297 Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all sins. 
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. 

295 Yes — the hint will be given in sleep, that trail must be 
then follov/ed or the keenest sight is as blindness. 

293 Amend your ways and your doings, and difficulties will 
disappear of themselves. 

291 Don't talk about luck, to speak of it drives it away — 
stick to your work in silence. 

289 Don't acknowledge yourself a failure ; persevere, mean- 
while study aptness and inclination. 

287 Haste makes waste ; when you know the facts decide 
quickly; look into details. 

285 The secret of popularity is in knowing what not to say 
in the wrong time or place. 

283 Xot unless the honor of another is in your keeping; 
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Don't be too anxious to color your case — stand stead- 
fast for the exact truth. 

Make every possible effort to its attainment; don't rely 
on idle wishing — be generous. 

Don't swell and strut for when it comes, it will be 
more luck than your good sense. 

It will take much time and great patience — But happi- 
ness is worth it, persevere. 

The true measure of a b.ad habit is its injury to others 
— Don't be a brute — be kind at all times. 

In a condtion of spiritual unrest; like a pendulum be- 
tween highest truth and repose. 

The hurt is beyond the skill of medicine; what differ- 
ence does it make with life at best a span. 

That depends entirely upon your mental attitude, as 
do the sortations of the balls. Have faith. 

Forget all tears as soon as shed ; keep sunshine glow- 
ing in the breast. — There's gold for you. 

Ill in that degree to which despondency mounts, banish 
it with a Billiken's smile. 

The balls are as sensitive to doubts as the red and 
white of your blood are to toxin. 

Indecision is your great fault. Sleep; then decide 
quickly on the side that's first in mind. 

Take no pains to waylay and entrap that which of it- 
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308 Write the vision, and make it plain, that you may run 
away from ill. 

306 Mystery, mystery. There are others in the way. Ask 
again later. 

304 Yes, if there's reciprocal trust and confidence and 
wherewithal for grocer and baker and the rest. 

302 On the neck of the man, young or old, sparkles no gem 
so gracious as enterprise. 

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our com- 
ing and look brighter when we come. You are it. 

Be very discreet in this particular case but show ex- 
pectation of perfect loyalty. 

323 Seek no reconciliation unless you are in the wrong; 
keep sweet. 

321 No it is like a ship that sailed for sunny isles, but 
never came to shore. 

319 Your difficulties are fair compensation; you must 
pay the price of former extravagance. 

317 Trust your instincts. First thoughts after a good 
sleep are always right. 

315 If you are doing well, do not give up, unless uncon- 
geniality is undermining digestion. 

313 Do not be over anxious or excited; decide the matter 
on its merits alone— but quickly. 

311 Work hard for the institution of which you are a 
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When you find yourself unpopular, ask yourself what 
you have said, not what you have done. 

It is better to suffer loss and injury than to go to law 
and suffer more. 

If you have unbounded wealth and unscrupulousness, 
you win at law\ 

It were better to keep your desires less vastly out of 
proportion to your needs. 

That undertaking is doomed to failure which is so far 
ahead of the times as to be visionary. 

Don't embitter the present hour with vain regrets for 
lost opportunities. Sieze the new ones. 

And the devil did grin for his darling sin is pride that 
apes humility. 

Improving present conditions by taking a bath too long 
deferred. 

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is 
more hope of a fool than of him. 

And he that will success deny, let him down among 
the dead men lie. 

Only such as you buy and pay dear for — the jewels of 
experience. 

A portent of great moment. See that you note both 
the time and place of this intuition. 

The time is propitious the moment you seriously desire 
an answer. 



^ THERE'S a Wireless 'twixt Destiny and 
Life. INSTINCT was its first interpreter. 

^ Instincts prove the existence of a means 
of communication; but man soon lost hts code 
of interpretation. 

^ Premonitions and intuitions are messages 
that come to man over Destiny's wireless. 

J- Mind is like the meddling amateur that 
cuts in and spoils the original message. 

^ Ellu is your interpreter — your Other 
Self at your end of Destiny's wireless. Get 
acquainted with your Other Self. 



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